Thursday, January 14, 2021

2020 in portmanteaus

It's time again for me to make crazy new films by jamming together the titles of two movies released in 2020. The seventh time, in fact. 

COVID-19 can take some things away from us, but not this.

I'm Thinking of Staten Island - A woman considers breaking up with her boyfriend because his tattoo skills are so poor.

Feels Good Mank - Herman J. Mankiewicz gets embroiled in controversy when he writes Pepe the Frog into Citizen Kane

The Invisible Mank - Herman J. Mankiewicz gaslights Orson Welles into believing he's the sole writer of Citizen Kane by turning invisible and whispering withering put-downs.

Fatmank - Despondent over his inability to get full credit for writing Citizen Kane, Herman J. Mankiewicz takes a job trying to kill Santa Claus.

Eurovision Sonic the Hedgehog - A super-speedy alien has to join the world's most popular talent show when it turns out Lars and Sigrit were also on that boat. 

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of Wonder Woman 1984) - Wonder Woman breaks up with the Joker, freeing herself up to become the first big superhero movie released during the pandemic.

Bill & Tenet Face the Music - The quest to create the world's greatest song becomes even more challenging when the Wyld Stallyns go backward through time in reverse. 

Uncle Frank & Antebellum - A gay white man and a straight African American woman argue which is worse south of the Mason-Dixon line, racism or homophobia? 

Promising Young Wonder Woman - A feature length movie on the Themyscira Olympics. 

The War with Grandpalm Springs - A boy and his grandfather get extra creative and deadly in their pranks when they realize they are re-living the same day. 

Borams - Borat Sagdiyev gets injected with COVID-19 and infects a bunch of Australian sheep.

Ma Rainey's Black Borat - Something highly inappropriate I'm sure. 

Fantabulous Island - Harley Quinn brings ordinary people to an island where they can enact their every revenge fantasy against the Joker. 

Wolfwasp Network - Wolves? Wasps? Wasps? Wolves? Let's call the whole thing off. 

The Wrong Miss Juneteenth - The prize for winning a pageant for African American teenage girls is a trip to Hawaii with David Spade.

Rebeccapone - A new bride arrives at a large estate, where she has to contend with the ghost of its former mistress -- as well as Al Capone shitting himself. 

The Social Dil Emma - The romantic entanglements of a 19th century English village just get more complicated when everyone gets Tinder. 

The Swallowbys - Three eccentric children get left behind in their giant mansion by their wicked parents, and experiment with swallowing household objects in their boredom.

Downhillbilly Elegy - A strung-out Amy Adams invites further shame when she flees from an avalanche, forgetting that the Appalachian Mountains don't have any snow. 

Blow the Man Downhill - A contemplation of the age-old adversarial relationship between avalanches and human beings, from the perspective of the avalanche.

Onward the Rocks - Rashida Jones spies on her husband to see if he's cheating on her, with the help of her father, Bill Murray -- but only his bottom half. 


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